Slavery & abolition of slavery books

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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo

Author: Zora Neale Hurston ,  Deborah G Plant
ISBN: 9781538519301
Format: Audio
$105.57

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Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic

Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary...

Author: Kit Candlin ,  Cassandra Pybus
ISBN: 9780820353876
Format: Paperback
$76.43

These recovered histories of entrepreneurial women of color from the colonial Caribbean illustrate an environment...  Read More >>

Tyrannicide: Forging an American Law of Slavery in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts

Tyrannicide: Forging an American Law of Slavery in Revolutionary...

Author: Emily Blanck ,  Paul Finkelman
ISBN: 9780820353883
Format: Paperback
$97.55

Tyrannicide uses a captivating story of the escape of thirty-four slaves from a British privateer to unpack the...  Read More >>

The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic

The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and...

Author: Lisa Ze Winters ,  Richard S. Newman
ISBN: 9780820353845
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Attentive to the tenuousness of freedom, Ze Winters argues that the concubine figure’s manifestation as both historical...  Read More >>

Sanctifying Slavery and Politics in South Carolina: The Life of the Reverend Alexander Garden, 1685–1756

Sanctifying Slavery and Politics in South Carolina:...

Author: Fred E. Witzig
ISBN: 9781611178456
Format: Hardback
$80.30

When Alexander Garden, a Scottish minister, arrived in South Carolina in 1720, he found a colony smoldering from...  Read More >>

Slavery: The history and legacy of one of the world's most brutal institutions

Slavery: The history and legacy of one of the world's...

Author: James Walvin
ISBN: 9781911187844
Format: Paperback
$25.85

James Walvin tells the story of one of the world's most brutal and enduring institutions and explains how it helped...  Read More >>

The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua

The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua

Author: Samuel Moore ,  Fabio R de Araujo
ISBN: 9781609423568
Format: Hardback
$28.20

Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua's biography was published in 1854. His report is the only known document about slave trade...  Read More >>

The Caribbean

The Caribbean

Author: Jacob Gelt Dekker
ISBN: 9789492371744
Format: Paperback
$41.27

The Caribbean offers an accessible and entertaining survey of this complex region that goes well beyond the usual...  Read More >>

The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America: Special Edition

The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United...

Author: W E B Du Bois
ISBN: 9781717598141
Format: Paperback
$81.81

W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community....  Read More >>

Narrative of Sojourner Truth: Based on information provided by Sojourner Truth 1850

Narrative of Sojourner Truth: Based on information provided...

Author: Olive Gilbert
ISBN: 9781718666306
Format: Paperback
$20.99

Narrative of Sojourner Truth written by Olive Gilbert and based on information provided by Sojourner Truth 1850....  Read More >>

They Knew Lincoln

They Knew Lincoln

Author: John E. Washington ,  Kate Masur (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University)
ISBN: 9780190270964
Format: Hardback
$54.95

Originally published in 1942, They Knew Lincoln is a collection of historical vignettes about black Americans who...  Read More >>

Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora

Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African...

Author: Kevin Dawson
ISBN: 9780812249897
Format: Hardback
$277.07

Kevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills--swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing--to...  Read More >>

Before Dred Scott: Slavery and Legal Culture in the American Confluence, 1787–1857

Before Dred Scott: Slavery and Legal Culture in the...

Author: Anne Twitty (University of Mississippi)
ISBN: 9781107530898
Format: Paperback
$67.27

Appealing to legal historians and scholars, this antebellum history uses original legal suits to analyse the understanding,...  Read More >>

The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean

The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of...

Author: Gerald Horne
ISBN: 9781583676639
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Chronicles how American culture - deeply rooted in white supremacy, slavery and capitalism - finds its origin story...  Read More >>

The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean

The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of...

Author: Gerald Horne
ISBN: 9781583676646
Format: Hardback
$206.00

Chronicles how American culture - deeply rooted in white supremacy, slavery and capitalism - finds its origin story...  Read More >>

Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island

Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island

Author: Christy Clark-Pujara
ISBN: 9781479855636
Format: Paperback
$60.99

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Two Captains from Carolina: Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil War

Two Captains from Carolina: Moses Grandy, John Newland...

Author: Bland Simpson
ISBN: 9781469642291
Format: Paperback
$58.08

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A New Plantation World: Sporting Estates in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1900–1940

A New Plantation World: Sporting Estates in the South...

Author: Daniel J. Vivian (University of Kentucky)
ISBN: 9781108416900
Format: Hardback
$150.08

Examines the transformation of architecture and landscape involved in the making of 'sporting plantations' in coastal...  Read More >>

Quakers and Abolition

Quakers and Abolition

Author: Brycchan Carey ,  Geoffrey Plank
ISBN: 9780252083471
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Offers a collection of fifteen insightful essays that examines the complexity and diversity of Quaker antislavery...  Read More >>

Iola Leroy: or, Shadows Uplifted

Iola Leroy: or, Shadows Uplifted

Author: Frances Harper ,  Koritha Mitchell
ISBN: 9781554813858
Format: Paperback
$58.74

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The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839)

The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment...

Author: Thomas Clarkson
ISBN: 9789387600348
Format: Paperback
$98.37

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The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Vol. II

The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment...

Author: Thomas Clarkson
ISBN: 9789387600331
Format: Paperback
$70.20

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